"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٩‎٧‎٦] (١٧٨٢/١١٣١)

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whom peace in Hasa waters had formerly been maintained, could not
acquiesce in a policy of inaction.
In October 1878, in connection with the serious crime then recently
committed off Zubarah, Colonel Ross, the Political Resident, was
instructed to ask the Turkish Wali of Basrah that the offending township
should be punished, and to make an offer of British naval assistance.
About the same time H.M.S. a Vulture," Commander Pringle, succeeded
in capturing fifteen piratical vessels of the 'Amair off Qatif and three
vessels and four boats belonging to the Bani Hajir, two of which ^ere
prizes from Bahrain, in the waters to the south of Qatif. All these craft
were handed over to the Turkish Governor of Qatif on a receipt; and the
important services rendered by the ship were subsequently acknowledged
both by the Government of India and by the Foreign Office in London.
In a friendly interview with Colonel Ross at Basrah in the month of
October, f Abdullah Pasha, the Turkish Wali, declined the help of British
ships, but promised to punish Zubarah if the guilt of the place were
established to his own satisfaction; in the meanwhile, however, Zubarah
ceased to exist, having been destroyed by tribal enemies as described in
the history of Qatar.
In January 1879, the disorders still continuing, a Turkish force
marched by land against the small coast settlement of Qarat-al-IIusain in
Dhahran : but it did not succeed in capturing any of the pirates or in
recovering any of the stolen property ; and meanwhile two Turkish
vessels of war, the " Broussa " and the " Iskanderia," which had been sent
to the coast of Hasa by the Turkish Ministry of Marine, had both broken
down. In February, chiefly for the protection of Bahrain, H.M.S.
" Spartan" was stationed off the cost of Qatif, and the Assistant Political
Resident, Captain Durand, was posted temporarily in Bahrain ; and
by April two Bahrain vessels carried off by pirates had been recovered
by H.M.S. " Vulture," and matters had to some extent quieted down.
In July, in consequence of the renewed piracies of Zaid-bin-Muhammad,
representations were made to the Porte and to the Turkish Governor of
Basrah, but without satisfactory, or indeed any, result. In November
Zabit Pasha, the successor of 'Abdullah Pasha at Basrah, was urged to
take action for the suppression of piracy in Hasa ; but he showed no dis
position to comply. In December the Shaikhs of Qatar were warned by
letters from the British Resident in the Gulf, delivered through the Senior
Naval Officer, to avoid becoming implicated in the crimes of Bani Hajir.
In April IbSO Zabit Pasha was addressed regarding the pirate Zaid-bin-
Muhammad and replied that he had not yet been able to effect his capture